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Re: Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

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Yes, you can do this with OBS. The virtual webcam feature can be added as a plugin. And chroma-keying is a built-in feature. I use a Mac, and I've been toying with this a bit over the last weeks (e.g. https://davidbieber.com/snippets/2020-04-09-exploring-obs/ )

It's super easy...if you have a suitable chromakey backdrop and decent lighting on it. What I'd love is a plugin that replicates (or at least approximates) some of the "virtual chromakey" features of Zoom et al. I don't currently have access to a good chromakey backdrop and it really is much easier to do it well with a bright green matte screen behind you. It ain't important, but it would sure be nice!

For Windows, Snapchat have a standalone virtual cam called Snapcamera https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/

There are green screen plugins for that. You could chain Snapcamera's virtual cam output into OBS and use OBS 's chromakey filter to underlay whatever other content you like. Y I u can then output OBS to another virtual cam output for use in Zoom or wherever else via the Virtualcam plugin for OBS.

It'd be really nice if someone would make a nice OpenCV virtualcam output so one could drive all this from a (relatively) simple Python script.

Re: Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

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It was very common when I worked, but when they went to 60k+ people working over the work VPN it was discouraged.

Can't split tunnel that VPN, because "security." Am I right?

Yep!

Re: Show HN: ZoomerBackgrounds – community-sourced virtual video backgrounds

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It's super easy...if you have a suitable chromakey backdrop and decent lighting on it. What I'd love is a plugin that replicates (or at least approximates) some of the "virtual chromakey" features of Zoom et al. I don't currently have access to a good chromakey backdrop and it really is much easier to do it well with a bright green matte screen behind you. It ain't important, but it would sure be nice!

For Windows, Snapchat have a standalone virtual cam called Snapcamera https://snapcamera.snapchat.com/ There are green screen plugins for that. You could chain Snapcamera's virtual cam output into OBS and use OBS 's chromakey filter to underlay whatever other content you like. Y I u can then output OBS to another virtual cam output for use in Zoom or wherever else via the Virtualcam plugin for OBS. It'd be really nic…

Oh hey, this worked fairly well. I used one of the Snap fake-greenscreen filters and fed it to OBS as you suggested. It really does highlight the limitations of fake-chromakey (edges are fuzzy/flickery) but that's to be expected without a real, properly lit backdrop.

I won't be using this in any work meetings but it could be fun for calls with friends.

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